Truss.



No. 818,446. PATENTED APR. 24, 1906. G. v. HOUSE. muss.

APPLIGATION FILLED JUNE 4, 1904.

INVENTOR George 1670mm 3 BY ATTORNEYS GEORGE V. HOUSE, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK.

TRUSS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed M11104, 1904:- Serial No. 211.121.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE V. HOUSE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mount Vernon, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Truss, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a simple protective device for the end of the belt of a truss where it connects with a padcarrying plate and to so construct the said protective device that it will cover and conceal the end of the band or belt connecting with the pad-carrying plate and at the same time partly cover the buckle or other fastening device employed to receive the free end of the said band or belt, thus giving the truss a perfect finish when on the person and likewise preventing the band or belt where it connects with the pad-carrying plate from becoming disengaged from its buckle or fastening device and also preventing the buckle or fastening device from annoying persons having a good amount of flesh.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming aportion of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a single form of truss, the protective device being closed over the buckle connecting the belt with the pad carrying plate. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the pad-carrying plate of the device, the protective device being shown open; and Fig. 8 is a front elevation of a padcarrying plate of the double form in which the protective device is applied, a portion of the device being broken away.

The protective device is as applicable to a single form of the truss as to the double form, and the said protective device is exceedingly simple in its character and is readily operated, as will be hereinafter disclosed.

In the drawings, A represents a carryingplate for a web-truss, and in Fig. 3, A represents a double carrying-plate or one which is provided with truss-pads a and a for engagement with the body.

B represents the body-belt commonly employed in a web-truss, which is connected by a strap 11 in the customary way with the attaching-plate 10, securing a truss-pad on the carrying-plate. The said belt B at its opposite end is detachably connected with the carrying-plate for a truss-pad through the medium of a buckle 12 or its equivalent attached to the plate, usually by means of a tape 13 or an equivalent means.

The main feature of the invention, as has been stated, consists in the protective device for the free end of the band or belt B and the buckle or fastening device receiving such end. This protective device, as is clearly shown in the drawings, consists of upper and lower flaps 14 and 15 and a side flap 16, the side flap being adapted to be carried over the end of the band or belt B, received by the buckle 12, and the upper and lower flaps are adapted to be carried over the side flap and over one another, being secured together by preferably a separable button 17, the head of such button being carried by one flap the flap 15, for exampleand the shank of the button being carried by the upper flap 14; but the positions of the sections of the separable buttons may be made otherwise as required. When these two parts are brought together in the manner described, they completely cover the upper and lower edges of the buckle, thus preventing the band from being accidentally released from the buckle and preventing the buckle from engaging with the flesh of the wearer to his discomfort.

In Fig. 3 I have illustrated the adaptation of the device to what 1 term a double carrying-plate or a plate carrying two projections (1 and a on its inner face. In the single form of carrying-plate (shown in Figs. 1 and 2) the protective device is at the inner end of the plate, whereas in the double form of plate (shown in Fig. 3) the protective device is located at the center. In the single form of the device (shown in Figs. 1 and 2) a single strap 18 is employed, attached at one end to the belt or band B and at its opposite end to the attaching-plate 10 of the trusspad. In the double form of the device (shown inFig. 3) the body-band B is connected with the attaching-plate 10 of one of the truss-pads a a in the same manner as shown in the single form but two perineal straps 19 and 19 are employed, one perineal strap being secured to the attaching-plate 10 of the first-named pad (1, while the other perineal strap 19 is attached to a flap 20, secured to the carryingplate A and extending in direction of the buckle'21, receiving the free end of the belt or band B, and in this double form of truss the protective device consists of an upper flap 22 and a lower flap 23, one being adapted to close over the other, and the two fiaps are secured together by a separable button 24, the parts of which are disposed in the manner above stated. It will be observed that in the double form of truss the protective device also covers and protects the free end of the band or belt and likewise the upper and lower pocrltions of the buckle receiving such free en When a truss is provided with the protective attachment described, it is given a very neat and finished appearance, and, as has been stated, the buckle cannot engage with the flesh even of astout person wearing the truss, nor is it possible for the band or belt to be accidentally disengaged fromits retainer or buckle, and the body-band can be shortened by cutting the end protected by the flaps without spoiling the appearance of the appliance.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a truss, a pad-carrying plate, a bodyband secured at one of its ends to one end of said plate,fastening means carried by the other end of said plate for engaging the free end of the body-band, a protective side flap opening horizontally on the front side of the protective plate and adapted to overlap the free end of the body-band and the fastening means for said free end, and upper and lower flaps extending at right angles to the side flap and adapted to overlap said first-named flap on the front side of the protective plate,

and means for detachably securing the said upper and lower flaps one over the other.

2. In a truss, a pad-carrying plate for a web-truss, a body-band attached thereto at one end, a fastening device carried by the said plate, adapted to receive the free end of the body-band, a protective device consisting of flaps arranged to fold one over the other and over the fastening device and the end of the body-band received by the fastening device, and means for securing the said flaps one to the other, as described.

8. A pad-carrying plate for a web-truss, a body-band for the truss, secured thereto at one end, a buckle attached to the said carrying-plate at its opposite end, adapted to receive the free end of the body-band, and a protective device consisting of flaps arranged to be folded over the buckle and the free end of the body-band when in the buckle, and to be folded one on the other, and a fastening device for the said flaps, as described.

4.. In a truss, a pad-carrying plate, a bodyband, a fastening device carried by the plate and adapted to receive the free end of the body-band, flaps carried by the plate and arranged to fold one over the other and over the free end of the body-band after the latter is received by the fastening device, and a device having separable members for securing the said flaps in position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE V. HOUSE.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. AGKER, JNO. M. BITTER. 

